# 1981 Asian Athletics Championships

The 1981 Asian Athletics Championships was the fourth edition of the biennial athletics competition for Asian nations, and was held from June 5-7, 1981 in Tokyo, Japan.

## Medal summary
### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres (wind: -1.3 m/s) | Suchart Chairsuvaparb Thailand | 10.52 | Yuan Guoqiang China | 10.69 | Sumet Promna Thailand | 10.74 |
| 200 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s) | Toshio Toyota Japan | 20.99 | Sumet Promna Thailand | 21.16 | Hirohito Yamazaki Japan | 21.23 |
| 400 metres | Takayuki Isobe Japan | 46.72 | Eiji Natori Japan | 46.92 | Aouf Abdulrahman Yousef Iraq | 47.22 |
| 800 metres | Abraham Rajan India | 1:50.21 | Khalid Khalifa Kuwait | 1:50.37 | Takatsune Teranishi Japan | 1:50.62 |
| 1500 metres | Takashi Ishii Japan | 3:50.63 | Sukhwant Singh India | 3:51.88 | Sant Kumar India | 3:52.12 |
| 5000 metres | Gopal Singh Saini India | 13:52.22 | Yasunori Watanabe Japan | 13:55.62 | Park Won-Keun South Korea | 13:57.33 |
| 10,000 metres | Kunimitsu Ito Japan | 28:53.29 | Tatsuya Moriguchi Japan | 29:24.77 | Kazuyoshi Kudo Japan | 29:30.25 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase | Masanari Shintaku Japan | 8:29.09 | Gopal Singh Saini India | 8:30.88 | Anokh Singh India | 8:52.67 |
| 110 metres hurdles (wind: -0.1 m/s) | Yoshifumi Fujimori Japan | 14.22 | Katsumi Kashiwazaki Japan | 14.33 | Satbir Singh India | 14.89 |
| 400 metres hurdles | Takashi Nagao Japan | 50.32 | Shigenori Ohmori Japan | 50.71 | Yukihiro Yoshimatsu Japan | 51.35 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay | Japan Hideyuki Arikawa Toshio Toyota Hirohito Yamazaki Hideki Ikeda | 39.86 | Thailand Somsak Boontud Suchart Chairsuvaparb Sumet Promna Supachart Waranot | 40.36 | South Korea Kim Yong-il Sung Nak-kun Choi Yong-joon Suh Mei-guh | 40.56 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay | Japan Takayuki Isobe Eiji Natori Shigenori Ohmori Takashi Nagao | 3:07.06 | Iraq Abbas Al-Aibi Fahim Abdul-Sada Aouf Abdulrahman Yousef Heitham Nadim | 3:10.10 | India Murali Kuttan Uday Krishna Prabhu Charanjit Singh Bajwa Sunil Abraham | 3:10.54 |
| 20 kilometre road walk | Chand Ram India | 1:34:08 | Ranjit Singh India | 1:35:20 | Vellasamy Subramaniam Malaysia | 1:37:32 |
| High jump | Zhu Jianhua China | 2.30 | Takao Sakamoto Japan | 2.24 | Shuji Ujino Japan | 2.21 |
| Pole vault | Tomomi Takahashi Japan | 5.20 | Rihan Ali Rihan Obeid Saudi Arabia | 4.40 | Abdullah Awadh Saudi Arabia | 4.20 |
| Long jump | Liu Yuhuang China | 8.05 | Junichi Usui Japan | 7.94w | Toshihisa Yoshimoto Japan | 7.71 |
| Triple jump | Zhou Zhenxian China | 17.05 | Masami Nakanishi Japan | 16.61 | Yasushi Ueta Japan | 16.10 |
| Shot put | Mohammed Al-Zinkawi Kuwait | 17.87 | Bahadur Singh Chouhan India | 17.38 | Vijay Bahadur India | 16.71 |
| Discus throw | Li Weinan China | 53.30 | Michio Kita Japan | 51.76 | Raghubir Singh Bal India | 50.04 |
| Hammer throw | Shigenobu Murofushi Japan | 69.62 | Masayuki Kawata Japan | 66.84 | Nobuyuki Ifuku Japan | 65.98 |
| Javelin throw | Shen Maomao China | 85.40 | Yoshinori Kuriyama Japan | 78.56 | Masami Yoshida Japan | 74.42 |
| Decathlon | Sabir Ali India | 7253 | Nobuya Saito Japan | 7078 | Zu Qilin China | 7074 |

### Women's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres (wind: +0.4 m/s) | Yukiko Osako Japan | 11.91 | Usanee Laopinkarn Thailand | 11.97 | Emiko Konishi Japan | 12.02 |
| 200 metres (wind: -1.6 m/s) | Emiko Konishi Japan | 24.46 | Tomi Osaka Japan | 24.52 | Lydia de Vega Philippines | 24.54 |
| 400 metres | Junko Yoshida Japan | 54.89 | Lydia de Vega Philippines | 55.39 | Saik Oik Cum Malaysia | 55.62 |
| 800 metres | Geeta Zutshi India | 2:08.13 | Kumiko Mega Japan | 2:09.86 | Kim Soon-Hwa South Korea | 2:10.41 |
| 1500 metres | Zhang Xiunen China | 4:27.11 | Geeta Zutshi India | 4:28.98 | Kim Soon-Hwa South Korea | 4:30.81 |
| 3000 metres | Akemi Masuda Japan | 9:18.17 | Nanae Sasaki Japan | 9:41.85 | Jiang Zhourong China | 9:48.07 |
| 100 metres hurdles (wind: -0.9 m/s) | Emi Akimoto Japan | 13.78 | Dai Jianhua China | 13.98 | Noriko Ehara Japan | 14.09 |
| 400 metres hurdles | Yumiko Aoi Japan | 59.26 | Hu Aiping China | 60.68 | Manathoor D. Valsamma India | 61.16 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay | Japan Tomi Osaka Yukiko Osako Emiko Konishi Emi Akimoto-Sasaki | 45.70 | Thailand Walapa Pinij Usanee Laopinkarn Pusadee Sangvijit Buspranee Ratanapol | 46.43 | South Korea Lee Young-sook Mo Myung-hee Park Mi-sun Chun Jung-shik | 47.85 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay | Malaysia Vengadasalam Angamah Mumtaz Begum Jafaar Saik Oik Cum Marina Chin | 3:46.36 | Philippines Lydia De Vega Gloria Acedo Lorena Morcilla Lucena Alam | 3:55.60 | India Hamida Banu Manathoor D. Valsamma Mercy Matthews Rita Sen | 3:59.80 |
| High jump | Hisayo Fukumitsu Japan | 1.93 | Zheng Dazhen China | 1.84 | Megumi Sato Japan | 1.81 |
| Long jump | Wu Feng China | 5.97w | Atsuko Adada Japan | 5.93 | Mercy Matthews India | 5.91 |
| Shot put | Shen Lijuan China | 17.75 | Kayoko Hayashi Japan | 15.66 | Yukari Seo Japan | 15.18 |
| Discus throw | Li Xiaohui China | 59.10 | Harumi Suzuki Japan | 48.86 | Reiko Honma Japan | 48.00 |
| Javelin throw | Tang Guoli China | 61.64 | Naomi Shibusawa Japan | 57.08 | Kanae Takahashi Japan | 56.16 |
| Heptathlon | Ye Peisu China | 5445 | Tomoko Uchida Japan | 5254 | Zaiton Othman Malaysia | 4879 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Japan (JPN) | 18 | 19 | 14 | 51 |
| 2 | China (CHN) | 11 | 4 | 2 | 17 |
| 3 | India (IND) | 5 | 5 | 9 | 19 |
| 4 | Thailand (THA) | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 5 | Kuwait (KUW) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | Malaysia (MAS) | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 7 | Philippines (PHI) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Iraq (IRQ) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Saudi Arabia (KSA) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Totals (10 entries) | Totals (10 entries) | 37 | 37 | 37 | 111 |